The document summarizes a weekly seminar presentation on generating awareness of the importance of girls' education through group meetings in Bhimgarhi village, Uttar Pradesh. The presentation covered introducing the community, objectives of group meetings, the process of holding meetings, observations about girls' education issues in the community, and challenges faced in generating awareness. The group meetings aimed to make parents aware of the importance of educating girls and inform them about government scholarship schemes for girls' education.

1. WEEKLY SEMINAR
PRESENTATION
GENERATING AWARENESS ON THE
IMPORTANCE OF GIRLS EDUCATION
THROUGH GROUP MEETING
PRESENTED BY:RK SHARMA
SUPERVISED BY: JJaved

2. CONTENTS
• INTRODUCTION
• ABOUT THE COMMUNITY
• WHAT IS GROUP MEETING?
• OBJECTIVES
• PROCESS
• OBSERVATION AND ANALYSIS
• SOCIAL WORK APPLICATION
• CHALLENGES FACED
• EVALUATION

3. INTRODUCTION
• Grown up educated girls can play an important
role in the development of their country.
• Girls education is necessary for making homes a
happy place.
• Educated girls can brighten the future of their
country by the good upbringing of their children.
• Education empower a grown up girl to become
economically independent.
• Education of rural girls is equally important.
• Gender parity index (GPI) in India was 1.07
(UNESCO 2015 survey)

4. ABOUT THE COMMUNITY
• Bhimgarhi is situated in Block- Jawan of tehsil Koil,
district Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh.
• Bhimgarhi is located 13km away from the headquarter of
the district.
• Dominant caste of the community are Jatav and Thakur.
• Total population people-1372
Female population-634
Male population-738
• There are about 259 houses in Bhimgarhi village.
• Literacy rate 68.23%
Female literacy rate -53.39%
Male literacy rate- 80.71%
(census report, 2011)

5. WHAT IS GROUP MEETING?
“An act or process of coming together”
A meeting is a gathering of two or more people
that has been convened for the purpose of
achieving a common goal through verbal
interaction such as sharing information. Group
meeting is the tool of generating awareness.

6. OBJECTIVES
• To enquire about the issues regarding the girls
education.
• Making parents aware about the importance of
girls education.
• Inform the members about the govt. schemes for
girls education .
• Inform them about the govt. scholarship
schemes.

7. PROCESS
• Identification of place .
• Mobilization of people.
• Discussion about the issue.
• Generating awareness about-
 Beti bachao ,Beti padhao
 Right to education Act, 2009
 Sarv Siksha Abhiyan
 Sukanya Samridhi Yojana
 Balika Samridhi Yojana
 Bhagyalakshmi Yojana

8. OBSERVATION AND ANALYSIS
• There is only one govt. primary school in the community.
• Mostly people are sending their children to primary
school.
• But girls dropouts are more in numbers because there is
no secondary education center in the community .
• In the community, most of the girls get married in
teenage.
• The literacy rate of the community is low especially of
girls.
• Most of the community members wants to educate their
girl child but there are so many resistance (financial
problems , security issues and transportation problem).
cont..

9. • A female member named Indravati stated
that,“bhook mitane ko paisa nhi hai, bachhon ko
kaise bahar pdhane bhejen”.
• From the statement this can be analyzed that mostly
the community members are daily wage workers , its
gets difficult for them to fulfill their basic needs.
• Mostly girls are engaged in household activities.
• A female respondent said that “chhori hain , roti hi
to banani hain kya karegi MA BA pdh k”.
• Community members feel threat for their girls child
in sending outside for study.
• An elderly female respondent stated that “aapni ijjat
apne hath , jawan chori hain , ghatna ghatne me
kitni derr lagti hai, waise hi zamana bahot gadbad
hai.”

10. SOCIAL WORK APPLICATION
• Principles of social work.
• Interpersonal communication (skill).
• Information Education Communication(skill).

11. CHALLENGES FACED
• Time consumed in identification of suitable place .
• During this season , people are engaged in their
agricultural activities. This is the major hindrance
in mobilizing people.
• Group meeting attracted community children
which cause disturbance in the meeting.
• Members discussing other problems which cause
in lose of objectivity.

12. EVALUATION
• Group meeting is one of the most important tool
of the interaction with two or more people.
• Through this group meeting we created the
awareness and motivate the girls for higher
education.
•Meeting was successful and informative.
• Awareness programs should be held in different
ways in regular interval of time .

13. Queries & suggestions are welcome
.